Are "Googits" a thing of the past?

[Warren Smith]

I can no longer find the "number of hits" in a Google search. 

What has changed? 1) My technique? 2) My browser? 3) My Google account status? 4) Google itself?

What about my colleagues? Does Google no longer report to you the number of hits in a search? (I have found that the number of Googits has been quite useful in the past in researching common patterns of language usage, so I would hate to see this functionality go.) I don't see number of hits reported in Google, DuckDuckGo, or Dogpile....

Does anybody know a way around this? 

Thanks.

Warren

[Nora Stevens Heath]

Warren Smith wrote:

> I can no longer find the "number of hits" in a Google search.
> What has changed? 1) My technique? 2) My browser? 3) My Google account
> status? 4) Google itself?

I just did a test search for "widget"; between the search bar on the
results page and the results themselves is the phrase "About 481,000,000
results (0.75 seconds)". I don't know how on earth this could *not* be
showing up for you; maybe you're overlooking it? It's easy to overlook.

Nora

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[Warren Smith]

Thanks, Nora. 

Very odd indeed. I am glad to hear that the problem is on my end, and not everywhere!

Thanks for looking for me.

W 

[Alan Siegrist]

Warren Smith writes:

 

I can no longer find the "number of hits" in a Google search. 

What has changed? 1) My technique? 2) My browser? 3) My Google account status? 4) Google itself?

 

What about my colleagues? Does Google no longer report to you the number of hits in a search?

 

Just reporting for myself, I certainly get the number of results from each Google search, right on the third line after the line “All  Shopping  Images  Videos..”

 

I have no idea why you no longer see it.

 

Alan

 

[Alan Siegrist]

Now that we know that it might be on your end, which browser do you use? It might be a browser-dependent issue.

 

Best,

 

Alan Siegrist

Orinda, CA, USA

[Michele Miller]

Hi Warren, it started happening for me over the last few days too. I realized it happens when I click on Tools (to tick “Verbatim”: Tools>All results>Verbatim).

When I unclick Tools or untick Verbatim, the number of hits is displayed. The number of hits is also displayed if I scroll to the bottom of the page and click Next.

Does this correlate with what you are experiencing?

 

Michele

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[Herman]

The function still exists. Maybe try clearing cookies to re-enable it in
your browser.

Note that the initially reported number of hits is typically exaggerated
by several orders of magnitude. To find the actual number, you need to
go to (or toward) the last page of hits.

Herman Kahn

[R Freeman]

Note that the initially reported number of hits is typically exaggerated 
by several orders of magnitude.  

And even then results vary wildly

Compare my results with those of Nora

regards,

Robert Freeman

[Herman]

>
> Note that the initially reported number of hits is typically exaggerated
> by several orders of magnitude. To find the actual number, you need to
> go to (or toward) the last page of hits.

I should have mentioned that the above only works when the actual number
of hits is less than 1000 (which is the maximum number of search results
returned per query on Google).

Herman Kahn

[JimBreen]

As others have commented, they are still there. I have to click on the

"Tools" button a couple of times to get the good old "About 124,000 results (0.35 seconds)".

That said, those raw counts are close to useless. I've been told by several technical people
within Google that they do not accurately reflect the number of pages indexed, and should
not be relied on.

For several years I have been using Japanese n-gram corpora to get comparative frequencies
of Japanese terms. One I built myself used the 500M sentence WWW corpus from Kyoto
University. The interface is at
http://nlp.cis.unimelb.edu.au/jwb/ngramcountswww.html and an example is at

http://nlp.cis.unimelb.edu.au/jwb/ngrams/ngramlookupwww.cgi?sent=%E5%9F%83%E9%99%A4%E3%81%91+%E3%83%9B%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AA%E9%99%A4%E3%81%91+%E3%81%BB%E3%81%93%E3%82%8A%E9%99%A4%E3%81%91+%E5%9F%83%E3%82%88%E3%81%91at  

That sentence collection is a bit small and rather old. A better version is available

based on the huge 2007 Google n-gram corpus. Unfortunately that corpus is locked

up under a research-only licence, but if anyone is keen to use it, contact me and I

can anoint you as a research associate.

Cheers

Jim

On Thursday, 15 November 2018 08:25:22 UTC+11, Warren Smith wrote:

I can no longer find the "number of hits" in a Google search. 

What has changed? 1) My technique? 2) My browser? 3) My Google account status? 4) Google itself.